He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
Interpretation
Learning from others is a noble experience that deserves respect and admiration.
This quote by Samuel Johnson emphasizes the value of education and the respect owed to those who impart knowledge. It suggests that any individual who teaches us something new deserves to be honored as a master, highlighting the importance of valuing educators and the learning process itself as a means of personal and intellectual growth.
In practice
In a graduation speech to honor teachers, this quote can be used to emphasize their impact.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.
The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.
To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.
The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.
Telling purposeful stories is interactive. It's not a monolog. Ultimately, purposeful tellers must surrender control of their stories, creating a gap for the listener(s) to willingly cross in order to take ownership. Only when the listener(s) own the tellers' story and make it theirs, will they virally market it.
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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